Fieldwork's Return
Troubled Steps Towards A Multispecies Imaginary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4317644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Aisher (University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 491-509 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Material Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-2200 • E-ISSN: 1751-8342 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17432200.2020.1794591 |
| OpenAlex | W3081947994 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
For many anthropologists, longterm ethnographic fieldwork does not end when they leave the field, as the journey towards ethnographic understanding evolves for years after physically returning from the field. In an auto-ethnographic mode, this paper traces the author’s return journey from the field, through transformations in their understanding of soul abduction and spirit-revenge among upland members of the Nyishi tribe in the Eastern Himalayas. The paper traces the author’s journey from initial ontological immersion in fieldwork materials, through a reductionist withdrawal from the data, to the “redemptive symmetry” of a multispecies approach: one which recognizes the human and more-than-human origins of such spirit phenomena
Aesthetics · Art · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |